• Books,  QP Blog,  Yale Law Journal

    Yale Law Journal, Feb. 2016: History of patent cases’ explosion, 4th Amendment issues of ‘effects,’ and tributes to Robert A. Burt

    The February issue of the Yale Law Journal features articles and essays by notable scholars, as well as extensive student research. The issue is dedicated to the memory of Professor Robert A. Burt, with essays in his honor by Robert Post, Owen Fiss, Monroe Price, Martha Minow, Martin Boehmer, Anthony Kronman, Frank Iacobucci, and Andrew David Burt. In addition, the issue’s contents include: • Article, “The First Patent Litigation Explosion,” Christopher Beauchamp • Article, “The Lost ‘Effects’ of the Fourth Amendment: Giving Personal Property Due Protection,” Maureen E. Brady • Note, “Fifty Shades of Gray: Sentencing Trends in Major White-Collar Cases,” Jillian Hewitt • Note, “Present at Antitrust’s Creation: Consumer Welfare…

  • Books,  Law Reviews, Miscellaneous

    New England Law Review, Vol. 50, No. 1, on military prosecutors and commanders, charging authority, and sexual assault cases

    The New England Law Review offers its issues in convenient digital formats for e-reader devices, apps, pads, and phones. This first issue of Volume 50 (Fall 2015) features an extensive and important Symposium entitled “Discipline, Justice, and Command in the U.S. Military,” presented by leading scholars on the subject. Contents include: “Introduction to ‘Discipline, Justice, and Command in the U.S. Military: Maximizing Strengths and Minimizing Weaknesses in a Special Society,'” by Victor Hansen “Discipline, Justice, and Command in the U.S. Military: Maximizing Strengths and Minimizing Weaknesses in a Special Society,” by Rachel VanLandingham “On Unity: A Commentary on ‘Discipline, Justice, and Command in the U.S. Military: Maximizing Strengths and Minimizing…

  • Books,  Harvard Law Review

    Harvard Law Review, Feb. 2016: Constitutional bad faith, immunization and Ebola-quarantine, and does speech matter?

    The February 2016 issue, Number 4, features these contents: * Article, “Constitutional Bad Faith,” by David E. Pozen * Book Review, “No Immunity: Race, Class, and Civil Liberties in Times of Health Crisis,” by Michele Goodwin & Erwin Chemerinsky * Book Review, “How Much Does Speech Matter?,” by Leslie Kendrick * Note, “State Bans on Debtors’ Prisons and Criminal Justice Debt” * Note, “Digital Duplications and the Fourth Amendment” * Note, “Reconciling State Sovereign Immunity with the Fourteenth Amendment” * Note, “Suspended Justice: The Case Against 28 U.S.C. 2255’s Statute of Limitations” In addition, student commentary analyzes Recent Cases on the exclusionary rule in knock-and-announce violations; FTC regulation of data…

  • Books,  Yale Law Journal

    Yale Law Journal, Jan. 2016: Dual-class corporate governance, international law by Hobbes, Burger Court federalism, & wolf packs

    This January 2016 issue of the Yale Law Journal features articles and essays by notable scholars, as well as extensive student research. Contents include: • Article, “Corporate Control and Idiosyncratic Vision,” by Zohar Goshen & Assaf Hamdani • Essay, “The Domestic Analogy Revisited: Hobbes on International Order,” by David Singh Grewal • Note, “Repairing the Irreparable: Revisiting the Federalism Decisions of the Burger Court,” by David Scott Louk • Note, “Reconciling the Crime of Aggression and Complementarity: Unaddressed Tensions and a Way Forward,” by Julie Veroff • Comment, “Unpacking Wolf Packs,” by Carmen X.W. Lu • Comment, “Jurisdictional Rules and Final Agency Action,” by Sundeep Iyer This is the third…

  • Books,  Fiction

    Barry Schaller pens new 2016 political-legal-military novel The Ramadi Affair

    Connecticut judge David Lawson is a decorated veteran of Iraq, now thrust onto the national stage when the press learns he’s up for an unexpected vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court. Despite his successful career and his loyal political team of friends who understand Supreme Court politics, David is haunted by tragedies—from his early life and in combat. Secrets threaten his nomination and call into question his moral judgment—dark secrets pushed to the outer reaches of his mind, two decades after he fought in Ramadi. Now his rampaging platoon sergeant faces trial for murder, threatening to unearth the past. Cornered, David is forced to relive his most painful nightmares and…

  • Books,  Contemporary Society Series

    Good Courts by Berman and Feinblatt is digitally remastered,™ adding new Foreword

    Presented in a new digital edition, and adding a Foreword by Jonathan Lippman, Chief Judge of the state of New York, Good Courts is now available as an eBook to criminal justice workers, jurists, lawyers, political scientists, court officials, and others interested in the future of alternative justice and process in the United States. Public confidence in American criminal courts is at an all-time low. Victims, communities, and even offenders view courts as unable to respond adequately to complex social and legal problems including drugs, prostitution, domestic violence, and quality-of-life crime. Even many judges and attorneys think that the courts produce assembly-line justice. Increasingly embraced by even the most hard-on-crime…

  • Books,  Harvard Law Review

    Harvard Law Review‘s Jan. 2016 issue analyzes Presidential Intelligence and the rise of the administrative state

    The January 2016 issue, Number 3, features these contents: • Article, “Presidential Intelligence,” by Samuel J. Rascoff • Book Review, “The Struggle for Administrative Legitimacy,” by Jeremy K. Kessler (reviewing Daniel Ernst’s book on the origins of the administrative state) • Note, “Existence-Value Standing” • Note, “Rethinking Closely Regulated Industries” In addition, student commentary analyzes Recent Cases on compelled disclosures in commercial speech; due process notice of procedures to challenge a local ordinance; standing after liquidation actions taken under Dodd-Frank; exaction and takings by acquiring equity shares in AIG; religious liberty after Hobby Lobby; bias-intimidation laws and mens rea; and whether document production is the ‘practice of law’ under labor…

  • Books,  Dissertation Series,  Featured,  Human Rights and Culture

    Linda Veazey argues for a gendered view of cultural rights instead of the usual dichotomy

    A Woman’s Right to Culture is a new and insightful analysis of the usual meme that cultural rights in international law are at odds with the rights of women in affected societies. Rather than seeing these concepts as mutually exclusive, Linda Veazey frames cultural rights — through detailed case studies and analysis of law — in a way that incorporates and enriches the very gender-protective norms they are often thought to defeat. Adding a Foreword by University of Southern California professor Alison Dundes Renteln, the study makes the case, and supports it with illustrations over several continents and cultures, that the only way out of the dilemma is to have…

  • Books,  Harvard Law Review

    Harvard Law Review, Dec. 2015: On Intra-Agency Conflicts, Selling Body Parts and Milk, Immigrant Detention, and Conflict of Laws

    The December 2015 issue, Number 2, features these contents: • Article, “Intra-Agency Coordination,” by Jennifer Nou • Book Review, “Body Banking from the Bench to the Bedside,” by Natalie Ram • Note, “‘A Prison Is a Prison Is a Prison’: Mandatory Immigration Detention and the Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel” • Note, “Bundled Systems and Better Law: Against the Leflar Method of Resolving Conflicts of Law” The issue also includes In Memoriam essays honoring the legacy of Professor Daniel J. Meltzer, with contributions by Judge David J. Barron, Richard H. Fallon, Jr., Vicki C. Jackson, Robert S. Taylor, Justice Elena Kagan, David F. Levi, Martha Minow, and Donald B. Verrilli,…

  • Books,  Law Reviews, Miscellaneous

    New England Law Review, Vol. 49, No. 4, on privacy and big data: a new symposium on technology and privacy

    The New England Law Review offers its issues in convenient digital formats for e-reader devices, apps, pads, and phones. This 4th issue of Volume 49 (Sum. 2015) features an extensive and important Symposium entitled “What Stays in Vegas,” presented by leading scholars on the subject of privacy and big data. Contents include: * “Legal Questions Raised by the Widespread Aggregation of Personal Data,” by Adam Tanner * “What Stays in Vegas: The Road to ‘Zero Privacy,'” by David Abrams * “Privacy and Predictive Analytics in E-Commerce,” by Shaun B. Spencer * “Privacy and Innovation: Information as Property and the Impact on Data Subjects,” by Rita S. Heimes In addition, Issue…